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Another speaker at the Bankers' Club gathering-met to discuss a music festival to be held this month in Madison Square Garden to raise a fifth of the five millions needed to build the Yeshivah- was Adolph Lewisohn, one of the most intelligent and effective workers on human relationships in the U. S. He referred to the Yeshivah as "the salvation of Judaism," where Jews could acquire a college education in Jewish surroundings and without breaking the Sabbath and other holy days. He said that his own grandsons had been excluded "by one of the East's largest...
Last week, doddering old General Adolph Messimy (in 1914 Minister of War) created a sensation by calmly announcing that he, not M. Malvy, was the lover of Mata Hari. He said: "During many months, she, by all the means of seduction she knew how to employ in incomparable fashion, tried to acquire the right to call herself my mistress. I found her charming, but full of mystery, enticing, disquieting. I had the imprudence not only to tell her that but to write...
Questioned concerning the film in which she stars with Jack Holt, the stately beauty merely smiled. "The storm is rather nauseating, especially the third time. Though it is not a real typhoon. And Jack is such a dear. He has dignity, real dignity. But for verve, spirit, give me Adolph any time. Wasn't he just wonderful? No. I didn't really ever get into the bath. Yes it was furnished by the Crane company--and Adolph says such funny things--"But I have never had the role I want...
...Grand Duchess and the Waiter. Adolph Menjou is occupied in an unusually successful light comedy of Continental manners. The Duchess is broke in Paris. The waiter is a nobleman in disguise. How they found each other out is deft and feathery and excellent amusement...
...head of the department of musical educa-at New York University, and H. O. Osgood, associate editor of the Musical Courier put their heads together, added up points given on interpretation, ensemble, pitch, tone and diction, found that the Concordia Society of Wilkesbarre, Pa., under the direction of Professor Adolph Hanson had won first place, a point score of 273 out of a possible 300. Second came the Guido Chorus of Buffalo, N. Y., with a score...